Word: breaksteel
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...going to a town to live. She had long hinted at it (in a quiet voice, sweet as distant bells) and finally, just before supper, openly rebelled. It was because of the child, Addie, of course, not Mrs. Fippany's health at all. And Mr. Fippany surrendered by telling Breaksteel, the beagle puppy, they would give up trading tin pans and cups and gaudy Bibles and lithographs and pain-killers and perfumed hair-kink removers for chickens and eggs and milk and things, and go to the biggest town there was?New York...
Which they all did, by slow stages, Jim Pickett teaching grave little Addie her sums and reading and geography, placing with her, bathing in creeks, he being as much a part of the chicken-wagon family as Breaksteel or Kit and Luce, the mouse-colored mules. They all reached and drove down that old country road, Broadway, jamming traffic for fair as they hunted for a wagon yard, raged at by police-men until late in the rainy night, when kind Mr. Hibbard, a cop from Missouri, showed them into. a deserted fire-engine house...
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